Author: Alex

The limits you impose in your life are a byproduct of your perspectives and how you imagine the future to be based on things you know. What if you play the ‘choose your own adventure’ game in your life? Imagine new rules, imagine new beliefs, imagine new stories. Allow your mind to be free and […]

It’s a lot easier to connect the dots in your life looking backwards, as the late Steve Jobs once said. But realising your life’s stepping stones going forward demands a sense of self-control and incredible belief. Take any event in your life, crucial or ordinary. Things seem to fall in place at the right time, […]

Imagine you are a billionaire with a net worth of $2B. Now imagine, for whatever reason, you lost $1B. How does that make you feel? Probably not great. But remember: you’re still a billionaire. That’s the paradox. It doesn’t matter what you have in life or what you’re aspiring to achieve. The critical thing to […]

Don’t fool yourself by acting indifferently with banal, trivial things you do in your life. The goal is not to focus on doing the right thing only for important, needle moving actions in your life. The goal is to build a process you can trust to do things the best way possible. Regardless of triviality. […]

Mess and chaos are hardly a productive environment. But they are inevitable in our lives from time to time. A family disagreement, a tired kid’s tantrum, a turmoil situation in the office. They all happen. You have the choice to let these fuel your drive and direction for what you are doing at that moment […]

We think we are rational beings doing rational actions. And it’s always easier to spot ‘irrational’ actions in others. This is a mental prison. Your emotions are powerful and embedded in your beliefs. Your beliefs come from life experiences, aptitudes, social circles and a good dose of cognitive dissonance. We make decisions on a subconscious […]

When we don’t know about things happening, we don’t judge them because they don’t enter our conscious mind.  Think about all the good and evil happening in the world at this exact moment. How can you even contemplate being concerned about these things? Your attention is a limited resource, spend wisely. Things happen without our […]

Welcome to my first post. To kick this one off, I would like to start from a useful framework I try to apply everyday in my life: The Story You Tell Yourself. Every morning when I wake up, I have the option to change the story running in auto-pilot in my head. The one that […]